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Post by Sam on Feb 21, 2019 15:20:06 GMT
Hi. Love your stuff. Have a few questions. Did you finish your Ramshackle Fort? I would love to see a pic of it with the pieces spread out. Do you have a formula for the paste you use to cover your pieces? Is it spackle? I see a tub in the one pic and it has a gray tint. Did you add to the mix; i.e. paint, water, glue? I have wanted for years to make a model of the Keep on the Borderlands, but never seem to get the ambition.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Feb 22, 2019 2:45:57 GMT
Hi. Love your stuff. Have a few questions. Did you finish your Ramshackle Fort? I would love to see a pic of it with the pieces spread out. Do you have a formula for the paste you use to cover your pieces? Is it spackle? I see a tub in the one pic and it has a gray tint. Did you add to the mix; i.e. paint, water, glue? I have wanted for years to make a model of the Keep on the Borderlands, but never seem to get the ambition.
The ramshackle fort still lies unfinished, I'll get to it eventually but I'm having trouble motivating since it still needs a ton of work. I don't have an exact formula for the spackle. This tub was sitting for years, & as you've guessed I've added some black paint & water & stirred it for ages. I hadn't added any glue as I was worried about its longevity as it will dry out a bit over time but bounces back with just a bit of water. It can be thinned out to different consistencies depending on what I need it for. It's proven itself to be incredibly versatile. It also dries fairly quickly as long as you keep the layers thin. Afterward I usually basecoat with whatever I've got mixed up, usually something resembling black magic craft's paint & PVA. I'm worried how it will hold up to abuse at the table but at this point i'd sacrifice a number of children for the opportunity.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on May 1, 2019 7:39:26 GMT
I've been away for a spell. Here's something I was working on awhile back. Started with a salvaged Ben 10 toy that I can't seem to find the name for: I'm aiming for a paint job reminiscent of a rainbow/cutthroat trout but surrendered when the time to make dramatic moves reared its head. Looks like my living situation is gonna get flipped turned upside down so I've been in grind mode trying to finish a bunch of tiles, a dice tower, & a large board or two. [Pics coming soon, should be spraying a finish coat on at least the first set of tiles tomorrow]
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on May 1, 2019 13:01:04 GMT
Finally finished the sewer tiles I made oh so long ago. [FULL ALBUM] < fixed the link!This here is my only trepidation. I feel like I need to punch up the sludge but I'm unsure of the best way to achieve this. & I keep fighting the urge to give the whole thing a green wash, or perhaps just mottled here & there but feel like it may already be busy enough & I should just wrap it up.
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Post by margaret on May 2, 2019 16:01:13 GMT
Your current paint job looks right for sludge to me.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on May 2, 2019 19:22:54 GMT
Having some trouble with imgur, can someone confirm if the link above is working? Should be 10 images.
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Post by margaret on May 3, 2019 0:44:36 GMT
I see 2 images on this web page and 6 on the linked imgur page
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on May 4, 2019 23:31:41 GMT
I see 2 images on this web page and 6 on the linked imgur page Good gravy, should be fixed now.
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Post by margaret on May 5, 2019 5:11:13 GMT
Now seeing 10 images on Imgur page
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jun 4, 2019 8:20:01 GMT
Found these little guys in an odd tin where they'd been hidden away for 2 years or so. Polished them up with a bit of clear nail polish & a glittery-gold in order to remedy a misguided, foggy ModgePodge layer. I believe they were from a soft-plastic set of dragons from Michael's. Clipped all their wings to use in other projects & subsequently lost em to the craft mess. I'd imagined them as a feral pack roaming the caverns of a massive dragon's hoard. I eventually talked myself out of making a bunch of dragon's hoard terrain. While it'd definitely be visually striking, I can't imagine getting any real repeated use out of a Smaug McDuck vault.
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Post by margaret on Jun 4, 2019 14:50:43 GMT
A pack of baby dragons? Never thought of painting them as a group.
I have a couple of sets of those Safari Toob teeny dragons as well as next size up, for my grandkids to play with when they are building forts for their figures. Don't think I could bring myself to cut their wings off. Although the top left dragon is an oriental type and arrives wingless. I have seen them at both Michaels and Hobby Lobby. But it's pretty random whether a given store has them at any particular time.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jun 16, 2019 3:36:36 GMT
I found this 10 string of LEDs in my craft nest today. Y'all have any ideas what I should do with it? I've got another string in white that I've grafted onto the eyestalks of a gargantuan beholder but finishing that seems a daunting campaign.
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Post by Sam on Jun 16, 2019 15:48:33 GMT
Use it to light up a village?
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jun 28, 2019 6:03:03 GMT
I made this thing, it's got a yawning portal sort of vibe. I've only blocked out the colors for now & I've lost my steam for the night. Trying to finish this soon though, waiting to finish the paint job before threading jute twine through the riggings. I used those lights for this build, the lanterns are a bit oversized & sloppy. Definitely not my best work.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jun 30, 2019 5:40:35 GMT
So very nearly finished.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jun 30, 2019 5:56:34 GMT
A couple more with the mood lighting. & A few of the finer details.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jul 1, 2019 1:09:18 GMT
Had this hanging on the wall for more than a year with a generic stone paintjob that was way too dark. Decided to finally fix it. I've got another huge one [20x30 grid] that's been black-bombed but painting that is going to be quite the task.
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 1, 2019 3:29:17 GMT
Nice work. I love the grids with clear overlays, for mapping rooms, as needed. I strictly go for re-usable, re-configurable stuff in my RPG and miniature games. I use the occasional set-piece in my mini's games, but I try to avoid one-use pieces as much as possible -- don't have the storage room to keep such works.
We played out the "Battle of Five Armies" (from Tolkien's, The Hobbit), around 15 years ago. One fellow contributed a model of the Mountain. We used it once... Then he left it to me. He asked about it two years later, and I told him I got rid of it because I had no use for it anymore. We were both unhappy about that.
The game called for a Wolf Army of sixty (60) wolf figures. I owned a Prince August Goblin Wolf Rider mold (true 25mm scale molds), so I cast up 60 Wolf figures, using mostly recycled lead, to save money. Afterwards, I sold off around 20 of the castings on e-Bay. The remaining 40 wolf figures sat, unloved, for a decade, before I used them with some 1/72 Caesar plastic Goblin figures: I cut them off of their base, and glued them to the lead Wolf figures, to make Light Goblin Wolf Cavalry. I use other Goblin Warg figures for traditional Medium Goblin Warg Cavalry. I was unhappy about those unused Wolf figures for 10 years... Now I am very happy with them.
Just my approach to gaming stuff. It needs to be useful multiple times, for multiple things, or I cannot justify having it in my collection. YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary). Cheers!
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Post by tauster on Jul 1, 2019 7:24:09 GMT
Nice work. I love the grids with clear overlays, for mapping rooms, as needed. I strictly go for re-usable, re-configurable stuff in my RPG and miniature games. I use the occasional set-piece in my mini's games, but I try to avoid one-use pieces as much as possible -- don't have the storage room to keep such works. (...) Just my approach to gaming stuff. It needs to be useful multiple times, for multiple things, or I cannot justify having it in my collection. YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary). Cheers!
Can't say how much I second that. Mostly, I use 'modular' synonymously with 'reusable', and try to get the most out of the stuff I make.
My main tool here is magnets: I try to include flat scrap pieces of metal in terrain pieces as often as possible (cut-offs from twist-off caps or old craft knift blades), overpainting and hiding them where it makes sense, while scatter terrain gets a neodym magnet glued in the bottom.
But apart from that, there are so many cool ideas that fight their way to the top of my to-do list... Stuff that is definitely not reusable in other scenarios and more of one-of-a-kind piece... After a few years of crafting, these singular pieces really add up and take away a considerable amount of storage space. My approach to that is ' what the heck' - if coolness trumps reusability, I go for it and make it.
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Post by Caspan Edrogoth on Jul 10, 2019 20:21:13 GMT
Trying a new method for tree bark. Would anyone care to guess how I achieved this texture?
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